Preliminary Community Review: text/json

[Douglas Crockford]

>From our point of view, JSON is not an application. It is a text format. 

>From my reading of the definitions of text v application, JSON could be either. I think that text is a better fit. In the I-D, the word "text" appears 12 times describing JSON. The word "application"  appears 0 times describing JSON.


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net>
To: Douglas Crockford <douglas at crockford.com>
Cc: ietf-types at iana.org
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2006 1:22:29 PM
Subject: Re: Preliminary Community Review: text/json

Hi Douglas,

Can you speak to why you chose text/json instead of application/json?

Cheers,


On 2006/02/08, at 9:47 AM, Douglas Crockford wrote:

> This is notice of a potential media type registration.
> The details may be found here:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crockford-jsonorg- 
> json-02.txt
>


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